Combat Mosh · Lich King

234 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-46, 49-54 and 63-69, and 10 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
COMBAT MOSH · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 47, 48, 55 and 32 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 55-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 18 sections: 134 keep time, 38 are fills, 33 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-69.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART AO
CHORUS 4
13 groovesLAFXEAO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Combat Mosh?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Combat Mosh hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Combat Mosh?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 47, 48, 55 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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